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Vibrational ladder-descending photostabilization of a weakly bound molecule: Quantum optimal control with a genetic algorithm

Quantum Physics 2023-07-19 v2 Atomic and Molecular Clusters

Abstract

We propose an optical control scheme for driving a polar molecule from a high-lying vibrational level to a target low-lying one, within the same electronic state. The scheme utilizes an infrared chirped laser pulse with an analytical shape, whose parameters are optimized by means of a heuristic formulation of quantum optimal control based on a genetic algorithm. We illustrate this methodology computationally for a KRb Feshbach molecule in the lowest triplet electronic state.

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@article{arxiv.2205.06165,
  title  = {Vibrational ladder-descending photostabilization of a weakly bound molecule: Quantum optimal control with a genetic algorithm},
  author = {Mateo Londoño and Julio C. Arce},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.06165},
  year   = {2023}
}